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Why Gandhi matters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This essay is a lightly revised version of the 2011 address to the General Assembly of the United Nations, to mark the International Day of Non-Violence, observed every year on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, 2nd ...
Guha, Ramachandra
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Principled Experiments in Just Being: From Police Oversight to Community Intersight

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article compares ideals and practices of police oversight in two very different contexts—settler colonial North America and “post” colonial South Asia—to interrogate fundamental principles underlying police oversight globally and to imagine new ways of working toward transformation.
Beatrice Jauregui
wiley   +1 more source

Pacifist approaches to conflict resolution: an overview of the principled pacifism [PDF]

open access: yesJanus.net, 2017
This article explores pacifist approaches to conflict resolution based on principles, justifying the pacifist standard grounded in actors' belief systems (spiritual and ethical principles).
Oliveira, Gilberto Carvalho de
doaj  

Erik Erikson on Negative Identity & Pseudospeciation : Extended and Particularized by Ta-Nehisi Coates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
One can feel challenged in this chilling time when sundry variations of ultra-nationalism have become quite discernable in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa.
Friedman, Lawrence J.   +1 more
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Human Responsibility and the Environment: A Hindu Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The World Commission on Environment and Development acknowledged that to reconcile human affairs with natural laws \u27our cultural and spiritual heritages can reinforce our economic interests and survival imperatives\u27.
Dwivedi, O. P.
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Evolving Social Movement Strategies Against Green Grabbing: The Rempang Eco‐City Case in Indonesia

open access: yesAsian Politics &Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Green grabbing has detrimental impacts on local communities. These impacts are potentially exacerbated when they resist the appropriation of resources. Thus, this study delves into the transformation of resistance strategies in the case of the Rempang Eco‐City project in Indonesia to defend their land and reduce the risks they may face ...
Badrudin Kurniawan
wiley   +1 more source

Gandhi as a Brand: How Intermedia Advertisements Subvert His Transversal Values

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
Examined the process of media reinterpretation of Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy in 20th-21st century Indian advertising. Drawing on 37 case studies, it demonstrates how the philosopher’s transversal values (ahimsa, swaraj) are supplanted by commercial ...
Dhananjay Rai, Akash Singh Thakur
doaj   +1 more source

In pursuit of statehood: An exploration of the contentious repertoires of Biafran separatists in Nigeria

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 17-47, April 2025.
Abstract Since Nigeria’s return to democratic governance in 1999, there have been renewed calls―predominantly amongst ethnic Igbos in southeast Nigeria―for the restoration of the defunct secessionist state of Biafra. The resurgent Biafran separatism has been explored through the prisms of relative marginalisation and material deprivation. However, some
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Performance of Regional Development Banks (RDB) in Indonesia: Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach

open access: yesEconomies, 2022
The dominance of the banking sector shows that the banking industry plays an important role in driving the economy in Indonesia. As part of the national banking industry, Regional Development Banks (RDB) are required to contribute to the economy through ...
Ferdian Timur Satyagraha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fire in the Soul of Zurga: Bizet\u27s The Pearl Fishers and Male Sati [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Although in recent years Georges Bizet’s “other” opera, Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), has been performed on occasion, scant attention has been paid to it, compared to his ...
Dabbagh, Lori
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